On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 06:25:18PM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 08:07:32AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:12:16AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > > Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> I would like to install some selfmade or downloaded packages on my
> > >> system using apt or aptitude. These are packages, which are
> > >> experimental or 3rd-party (like my printer driver), and which is no
> > >> repository for.
> > >>
> > >> All packages are installable with dpkg -i by hand, and all packages
> > >> shall reside in a special directory (i.e. /var/cache/apt/archive2/ ).
> > >>
> > >> How must be the syntax in /etc/apt/sources.list ? I suppose, it is
> > >> something like
> > >>
> > >> deb file:///var/cache/apt/archive2/ ./
> >
> > do a man sources.list
> >
> >
> > their example is
> > deb file:/home/jason/debian stable main contrib non-free
>
> There is a reqiurement to prepare some kind of index, I believe. I'm
> not sure of the details, but there's a utilitu that does this.
there are a couple, the one i use is reprepro but this is for publishing
on a ftp or http access (can be used for local file reps as well).
I think you can get rid of the stable main contrib non-free and use ./
>
> -- hendrik
>
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